Sarah Elizabeth Healey (''née'' Fitzpatrick; born 1975) is a British civil servant, appointed as Permanent Secretary for the

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in March 2019.

Life

She read Modern History and English at Magdalen College, Oxford graduating BA, before pursuing further studies in Social Policy at the

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(MSc).Having entered HM Civil Service into the

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in the Cabinet Office in 2001, she served in the

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as the director for Strategy and Performance for a year from 2009, and then as director for Education Funding 2010–2013, and then in the

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as director for Private Pensions for just under a year in 2013. She is married to a barrister and has three children. In December 2013, Healey was promoted Director General in the then-

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. In mid 2016, she joined the new

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as one of their two Directors General. After two years at DExEU, she moved to replace Shona Dunn as the head of the Economic and Domestic Affairs Secretariat. In March 2019, it was announced that Healey had been further promoted, returning to DCMS to be the Permanent Secretary, replacing Dame Sue Owen. Healey was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the Queen's Birthday Honours in June 2019.

References

External links

Sarah Healey's page on gov.uk
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Healey, Sarah 1975 births Living people English people of Irish descent Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford Alumni of the London School of Economics British civil servants British Permanent Secretaries Companions of the Order of the Bath Healey